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The long-awaited public stock offer from third-generation sequencing technology company Pacific Biosciences has finally arrived (here’s the SEC filing, and coverage from Matthew Herper and GenomeWeb). PacBio has already raised almost US$400 million in venture capital, and aims to increase this by up to US$200 million from its share offering. The sheer scale of these…

Jay Flatley, CEO of sequencing giant Illumina, announced at the Consumer Genetics Conference today that the company had reduced the price of its retail whole-genome sequencing service. At $19,500 this still isn’t in the realm of an impulse buy for most of us, but it’s a long way down from the $48,000 that Illumina offered at…

Zoe McDougall from Oxford Nanopore points me to a press release from Illumina announcing a new era of celebrity genomics: Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it has sequenced the DNA of American actress Glenn Close, the first publicly named female to have her DNA sequenced to full coverage. The service was completed in Illumina’s…

The main theme of this year’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting should come as no surprise to regular readers: sequencing. Generating as many bases of DNA sequence as quickly, cheaply and accurately as possible is the goal of the moment, and the number of companies jostling to achieve that goal is growing rapidly.…

I’ll be at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting in Marco Island, Florida for the next week, soaking up sun and genomics, keeping my eye out for the anticipated major announcements from sequencing companies and researchers, and quietly panicking about my presentation on Thursday. You’ll hear more about the meeting from me and…

The big news from the JP Morgan investment conference today is the announcement of a brand new shiny sequencing machine from Illumina, the HiSeq 2000. The new machine boasts an impressive set of statistics, and looks likely to gradually replace Illumina’s GAIIx as the workhorse of most modern sequencing facilities. So, how excited should we…

The Gene Sherpa predicts that Complete Genomics will win the Archon X Prize in Genomics in 2010. In the comments, Keith Robison is wisely skeptical. I agree with Keith – it’s unlikely that the X Prize will be won this year, and if it is the winner is unlikely to be Complete Genomics. For those…

New-technology DNA sequencing provider Complete Genomics will provide near-complete genome sequences of 100 individuals to the Institute for Systems Biology, driving the first ever association study for a complex trait using whole-genome sequencing. Here’s the press release, and GenomeWeb has some additional information. This is pretty exciting stuff:

Complete Genomics is finally back on the road towards fulfilling its promises of $5000 human genome sequences, after delays in obtaining funding for a massive new facility pushed back its plans by six months. The $45 million in funding it announced this week will be sufficient to build the new Silicon Valley facility, which the company…

This BBC video is worth checking out – it’s a nice visual display of the processes used by genome sequencing provider Complete Genomics to smash apart and resequence a human genome. I can’t help but wonder if Complete built the blue-lit, monitor-lined hallway (screen shot below) purely for this video; it makes for great cinematics.…